***Rip Garrett Thread***

[Stash]

Agree completely. He did a great job the first half and neutralizing the Lions. Simply awesome.

But one other nasty thing resurfaced yesterday and that's Garrett inability to adjust at half time. With such a big lead going into half, the game plan should've changed to simply, run, run, playaction.

Exactly.

Let Detroit have to earn a 24-point comeback rather than giving it to them.

To the point before that first INT, the Lions had scored what? 3 points? and even those 3 were the result of a flukey shovel pass going for 20 yards.

Our defense was choking the life out of them, and poor play-calling and rookie mistakes gave the game back to them.

 

[dboy214]

ill say this....wasnt felix getting pretty decent yardage when we ran the ball? I understand his shoulder is screwed up...but with a 24 point lead...man take time off the clock! also never give tashard choice the ball ever....EVER! that guy is a bum. id rather have julius jones than him.

man even tashard was getting good yardage. the more i think about this, the more im shifting my blame from romo to garrett.

 

[Stautner]

I still don't get how people continue to act as if screens and curls and slants and basically dink and dunk passing qualifies as "slinging it". This is the kind of passing that much of the NFL essentially uses as a substitute for a running game.

If we were chunking the ball downfield and throwing a lot of low percentage passes that had a great risk of resulting in 3 downs and a punt I would agree with the people on here. But we weren't. We were balancing a running game that we were using more and more in the second half with a short, low risk, high percentage style passing game.

With 26 minutes left you can't just abandon the passing game and put it all on the defense. You can't run out 26 minutes.

I thought it was a little off base that people said last week we should have played to run the clock with most of the 4th quarter left, but playing scared with most of the 2nd half left is way overboard.

You pull back a little, which is exactly what Garrett did, but you don't roll over and completely forget everything that the lead was built on.

 

[Stautner]

man even tashard was getting good yardage. the more i think about this, the more im shifting my blame from romo to garrett.

So, Romo wasn't expected to make reads, be aware of coverage, notice of men were open or covered or double covered .......?

As I've said before, no team wins because all play calls are ideal. The best teams in NFL history didn't get that. Teams win because they get genearally good play calling, and they make the proper reads and decisions on the field.

Romo's job isn't to only execute when the perfect play call is in place, which is why he has a progression of targets, and has the ability to audible. That's what he is expected to do once the teams line up and once the defense reacts.

 

[Romo_To_Dez]

Garrett should learn from this and hopefully he will.


You don't completely forget the Passing game, but need no either to throw high risk passes up Big. Still run the ball and mix in some safe passes.

 

[Stautner]

Garrett should learn from this and hopefully he will.


You don't completely forget the Passing game, but need no either to throw high risk passes up Big. Still run the ball and mix in some safe passes.

When did a slant become a high risk pass? The only high risk pass was the 3rd INT, and that throw wasn't what Garrett called. Tony improvised on that throw.

 

[Stash]

When did a slant become a high risk pass? The only high risk pass was the 3rd INT, and that throw wasn't what Garrett called. Tony improvised on that throw.

It seems to me like it's an 'either/or' thing for you.

For may of us, it's both.

Nobody is letting Romo off the hook, how could we?

But we're not letting Garrett off either.